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Anesthesiology/Critical Care Experts

Our Anesthesiology/Critical Care witness experts are highly specialized medical professional with extensive knowledge and experience in the fields of anesthesiology and critical care medicine. Our experts play a crucial role in legal proceedings and litigation cases related to medical malpractice, personal injury, and other legal matters involving anesthesia administration and critical care treatment. Their expertise lies in providing expert opinions, analyses, and testimonies on the standard of care, medical protocols, and the appropriateness of medical decisions made during surgical procedures and in critical care settings.

  • Airway Management

  • Aspiration

  • Cardiac Arrest

  • Critical Care

  • Difficult Airway

  • Epidural

  • General Anesthesia

  • Hypoxia

  • Intubation

  • Medication Errors

  • Nerve Injury

  • Opioids

  • Positioning

  • Regional Anesthesia

  • Sedation

Areas of Expertise

Our Anesthesiology and Critical Care experts cover a wide range of topics, including:

Ramzi Asfour, MD Board Certified in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Medical Expert Witness

Pramod Krishnamurthy, MD

Board Certified in Intensive Care Medicine

10 years in practice

Pramod Krishnamurthy, MD, MPH is board-certified in Pulmonology Critical Care and Interventional Pulmonology and is an Associate Medical Director at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in the Bay Area, California. Dr. Krishnamurthy has a busy outpatient pulmonology practice and in addition practices critical care medicine at El Camino Hospital and Sutter Eden Medical Center. He has clinical privileges at four Bay Area hospitals ( El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Sutter Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, Washington Hospital in Fremont, and San Ramon Regional Hospital). His special interests include lung nodules and lung cancer, COPD, advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy, and critical care medicine including sepsis and respiratory failure.

Specialty Focus: Pulmonology Critical Care and Interventional Pulmonology

Education:

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MB BS) - Bangalore University, India.

Master of Public Health (MPH) - University of North Texas.

Internship - Kempe Gowda Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital, India.

Residency (Internal Medicine) - Rochester General Hospital, Rochester NY.

Fellowship - Pulmonary Medicine - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY.

Fellowship - Critical Care Medicine - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY.

Fellowship - Interventional Pulmonology - Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

Ramzi Asfour, MD Board Certified in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Medical Expert Witness

Bobbak Vahid, MD

Board Certified in Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care, and Internal Medicine

20 years in practice

Dr. Bobbak Vahid is a pulmonologist in Oakland, California, and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Eden Medical Center and San Leandro Hospital. He received his medical degree from the Iran University of Medical Sciences and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Pulmonologists treat ailments of the lungs and respiratory systems include asthma, pneumonia, tuberculosis, complicated chest infections, and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases including emphysema.

Specialty Focus: Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care, and Internal Medicine

Education:

Doctor of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Tehran, Iran

Fellowship, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.

Ramzi Asfour, MD Board Certified in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Medical Expert Witness

Kristina Kury, MD

Board Certified in Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care, & Internal Medicine

20 years in practice

Kristina Kury M.D. is board-certified in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and is the Regional Medical Director for Sound Critical Care, East Bay, and the Medical Director for the Sutter Eden Medical Center ICU and Respiratory Departments.

Dr. Kury has over 20 years of experience in both pulmonary and critical care medicine and currently oversees the ICU programs at three Sutter sites in the SF Bay Area including Alta Bates Summit Medical Center campuses in both Oakland and Berkeley as well as the Sutter Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley.

Specialty Focus: Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care,Internal Medicine

Education:

MD, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H.

MS Exercise Science, University of California, Davis

BS Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics, UC Berkeley

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